Chelsea’s Bearclaw Coffee growing up and out
Starbucks maybe on the retreat, but local coffee brewhouses are advancing. Chelsea-based Bearclaw Coffee is one of these local chains that is picking up where Starbucks left off.Excerpt:There may be fewer Starbucks in Michigan these days, but locally owned coffee chains are slinging more espressos and cappuccinos than ever.East Lansing-based Biggby Coffee reported its best year in 2009, with revenue topping $40 million, even as food and beverage retailers across the state reeled from a 4 percent drop in sales. Biggby recently opened new stores in Birmingham and Ann Arbor and has eight more in development.Although a Coffee Beanery franchise closed in Southfield two years ago, the Flushing-based company opened 12 stores last year, including one in Miami and three at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and more are in the works.Read the rest of the story here.And Ann Arbor-based Bearclaw Coffee Co. has 12 new stores in development and recently opened a mobile unit in Radcliff, Ky.Read the rest of the story here.
Starbucks maybe on the retreat, but local coffee brewhouses are advancing. Chelsea-based Bearclaw Coffee is one of these local chains that is picking up where Starbucks left off.
Excerpt:
There may be fewer Starbucks in Michigan these days, but locally owned coffee chains are slinging more espressos and cappuccinos than ever.
East Lansing-based Biggby Coffee reported its best year in 2009, with revenue topping $40 million, even as food and beverage retailers across the state reeled from a 4 percent drop in sales. Biggby recently opened new stores in Birmingham and Ann Arbor and has eight more in development.
Although a Coffee Beanery franchise closed in Southfield two years ago, the Flushing-based company opened 12 stores last year, including one in Miami and three at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and more are in the works.
Read the rest of the story here.
And Ann Arbor-based Bearclaw Coffee Co. has 12 new stores in development and recently opened a mobile unit in Radcliff, Ky.
Read the rest of the story here.
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